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Northlanders already battered by the weekend's heavy rain are bracing for another bout of rain.
Conditions were becoming increasingly wet and windy at Εakura, one of the small communities particularly hard hit and now left caked in mud.
Elaine Lang had lived there for four decades and said she had never seen it like this.
"I've never had mud, it was a foot deep and we've never had it come in our driveway before.
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"And the last time a bit of the ocean come over once, many years ago, Bola come over the main road,
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